illuminate time in contrasting ways. With time, as with almost all of the big questions of life, there are three major families of faiths offering answers—extended families of faiths in the sense that there are common family resemblances, although with differences, between philosophies or faiths that share a common notion of what is ultimately real. Viewed from this vantage point, the three major families of faiths are the Eastern, the Abrahamic, and the secularist, and out of them have grown three